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  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

After retiring from playing sports in 2006, Sanders became a commentator and then moved into football coaching. In 2020, he took over at Jackson State University in Mississippi, joining a losing program whose budget was one-thirtieth of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. They are organizations composed primarily of users working collaboratively, voluntarily, and with minimal oversight to freely and openly develop and exchange knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Management; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy
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Crossover into Business (for Professional Athletes)

By: Anita Elberse
Designed to help professional athletes be better prepared for business activities during and after their active sports careers, this program matches each athlete with a pair of student mentors so athletes can learn business fundamentals in a customized and flexible... View Details

    Rosabeth M. Kanter

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    contract, fraught with complexities, would open the door for future contracts with government entities. Featured Case A Winning Strategy (A): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating By: Rebecca Karp , Maria Roche , Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn This case describes... View Details
    • January 2016
    • Article

    Blind Loyalty?: How Group Loyalty Makes Us See Evil or Engage in It

    By: John Angus D. Hildreth, Francesca Gino and Max Bazerman
    Loyalty often drives corruption. Corporate scandals, political machinations, and sports cheating highlight how loyalty's pernicious nature manifests in collusion, conspiracy, cronyism, nepotism, and other forms of cheating. Yet loyalty is also touted as an ethical... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Groups and Teams
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    • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    The Vancouver 2010 Olympics

    By: Anita Elberse, Catherine Anthony and Joshua Callahan
    It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member of the Board of Directors for Vancouver's Organizing Committee (VANOC), is keen to ensure the Games will have a... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Sports; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Vancouver
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    • 29 Jul 2010
    • News

    Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award

    • 15 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 15

      Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • January 2025
    • Case

    Negotiating with Data: Analytics FC (A)

    By: Jillian Jordan and Livia Alfonsi
    Analytics FC was a UK-based sports consultancy that focused on international football (soccer), leveraging cutting-edge data-analytic techniques to support clubs, federations, and players. In 2022, Alex Greenwood, an elite female defender, approached the company for... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Preparation; Gender; Analytics and Data Science; Sports; Reputation; Value Creation; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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    • 2016
    • Conference Paper

    The Pressing Game: Optimal Defensive Disruption in Soccer

    By: Iavor I. Bojinov and Luke Bornn
    Soccer, the most watched sport in the world, is a dynamic game where a team’s success relies on both team strategy and individual player contributions. Passing is a cardinal soccer skill and a key factor in strategy development; it helps the team to keep the ball... View Details
    Keywords: Soccer; Strategy; Disruption
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    • June 2008
    • Article

    Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?

    By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu
    Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Specialties; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Health Industry
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    • April 2025
    • Case

    Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill, James I. Cash and Lydia Begag
    Joe Mazzulla's leadership journey with the Boston Celtics began in 2016 when he served as an assistant coach for their NBA G-League affiliate. In 2019, he was promoted to a "behind-the-bench" assistant coaching role with the Celtics, before being asked to become the... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Change Management; Communication; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Decision Making; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; United States
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    • January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
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    Henry Luce and the American Century

    By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox
    Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States
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    Hiring Organizations

    Hydration Curio Digital Therapeutics Inc. Custom Truck One Source Cyprium Partners D D. E. Shaw Group, The Danone Databricks Datadog David Protein DaVita DC Advisory De Soi Decarbonization Partners DECKED Deloitte Delta Air Lines Diageo Diamond Hill Dick's View Details
    • 20 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

    forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private equity firms contribute to financial fragility during economic crises? We find that during the... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

      Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment

      What’s behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Research Questions

      By: Anita Elberse

      One overarching question drives my research: What are effective marketing strategies for managers in creative industries?

      I focus on three sub-questions:

      1. How can managers in creative industries effectively manage products and product... View Details
      • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
      • Case

      Benetton Group S.p.A., 2000

      By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
      In 2000, Benetton was one of the leading mass fashion competitors in the world with approximately $1.9 billion in sales across 5,500 stores in 120 countries. But the company's fortunes seemed to be on the wane. Operating profits had fallen 9% from the prior year to... View Details
      Keywords: Fashion; Strategic Change; Strategic Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Performance Consistency; Management Teams; Strategy; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Italy
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      A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings (with Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal)

      The NCAA college football ratings, in which the so-called national champion is determined, has been plagued by controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each team has a different... View Details